12 Days of Christmas *Day 5* Non Traditional Colours + Giveaway!

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Hi Crafters,

Thanks for joining me for the 12 Days of Christmas, Day 5! I'm going to be working with non-traditional colours today for Christmas Cards creating with My Favorite Things products! Their latest release is so much fun, with lots of big, bold, sentiments and dies for gift ideas. As a bonus to the video, I also demonstrated how to use the lip balm die! A big thank you to MFT for sponsoring today's giveaway! 2x $50 gift certificates for TWO lucky winners!

Sometimes it's fun to take dies that have a lot of pieces and simply die cut them in a variety of colours to put together. You can create amazing scenes that sometimes you just can't plan. The houses in bubblegum pink and lemon chiffon yellow remind me of the colourful houses in Denmark. To compare, I also created a card with traditional colours to show off the difference. I love all the pastel colours - who would have thought to use them for Christmas cards?

I love having a frame for my scenes and stitched dies have been a favourite of mine for a long time. I think if just completely frames everything nicely and makes the card look clean.

These lip balm dies are so innovative! I love the fact that you can add little gifts into someone's stocking or secret Santa gift that are homemade. You can also fill the tube with candy or like I did, with sequins for a crafty friend to use!

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I'm an avid cardmaker who enjoys teaching others how to be creative. I am currently living in Thunder Bay, Canada and I work as an elementary teacher during the day. I enjoy traveling and reading in my spare time.

Hi Justine ~ I love both traditional and non-traditional colors for Christmas. I often gear my color scheme towards the person receiving a gift or special card. I really do like mixing it up. Thanks so much for sharing your fun cards and the great Chap Stick holders. Have an awesome weekend!! ~HUGS`#kindnessmatters

Love the use of non traditional colors. I'm definitely roll with that punch :), unless its sparkles :) Lovely ideas. Love this 12 days of creating! And, each day its always more than one card! So, we can really get our stash going.. right?

All those tiny pieces would put me over the wall. I always loose the little pieces. One eye, the hand.. yep, gone.. and I haven't even gotten out of my chair. My crafty friends just laugh. And they are as bad as I am!!! Fun card.﻿

Wow! Beautiful cards and your lip balm pouches are a fantastic idea for handmade Xmas gifts! I tend to use Christmas colors like red. green and golden. I've never used unconventional colors but I would love to try turquoise and pink on my cards!

I am loving those pastel houses so much! I did pastels for my Christmas cards last year and was going to go with more traditional colors this year. After seeing this, I might just have to do pastels again.

Your cards and gift ideas are fantastic Justine. I tend to make traditional coloured cards but I have been known to make some non traditional ones, the latest ones are pink/purple/silver and I have to say, I like them and so do those who have seen them...SCORE!I totally love MFT's innovative dies, they really put a lot of thought & effort into coming up with some amazing new dies.

Oh, my! I love the non-truadional colors - they are so peaceful. Your work is beautiful and those lip balm holder are over the moon. You have such great talent - love you blog (I'm a follower). Thanks for this sweet inspiration.......you rock!

Love the pastel colors. Going to have to get the lip balm die. I get my kids and sisters lip balm every year. Thanks for sharing your talents with us. The closest I get to using non traditional colors is black and white or white and kraft.

It all depends on the card and who it's going to. Sometimes it's traditional colors, other times it's not. I also like icey blues, purple and silver. Raspberry, teal and gold...lots of possibilities..That's the great thing about paper and ink, if you can dream it up you can create it!

The lip balm holders are cool, I don't have any of them but I had some glue stick packaging that I saved (I keep everything....the crafting hoarder) and lip balms fit perfectly in the glue packaging. Also, I really like the darker traditional colors you used. My favorite colors are very dark burgundy or ox blood and dark pine green.

The lip balm die looks like it would be perfect for creating prizes for the games we play during our family Christmas celebration. I bet a couple bills could be rolled up like lip balm. My favorite colors for t h ealing holiday are burgundy, deep green and gold.

Love love love these cards and tags!!! Great colors too!! I love using non traditional Christmas colors! Created a card the other day with red, bright green,yellow and blue snowflakes!!! Turned out beautifully!!

Super cute cards and tags. I wasn't sure if I was going to like the non-traditional colors...but...I really loved them! I used a mint and cream color combo last year for some holiday thank you cards. Thank you again for your inspiration!

So fun. I love using non-traditional colours for Christmas. This month, I created a bunch of pink Christmas cards, and a while back, i created a card using Catherine Pooler's Spring Fling inks. Your card reminds me of those colours.

I tend to use a little patterned paper with my Christmas cards, but that just makes it easy for me to experiment with colors since so many great paper lines put out amazing paper in both traditional and non-traditional combos. I get bored if I stick to the normal red & green! Great projects today!!!

Justine - - I've been following some other blogs where non-traditional Christmas colors are the rage - - like pink snowflakes. I like the pastel houses -- maybe Denmark. Maybe also Charleston, SC - oh yea, they don't have snow. Lovely.

Great cards and I like the die cutting with no coloring for something fun and different! I don't tend to use many non-traditional colors. I really love the red and green of the season with pops of silver or gold. Thanks for this fun series and your awesome videos!!

I really love these ideas. Those non-traditional colors are really inspiring to me!!!!! The pops of silver and gold really add to the holiday feel to the cards as well. You are really creative - I love watching your videos! :)

I love the idea of non-traditional colours plus the gifts. I am just not sure how these cards would be recepted with my grandparents etc ;) They are still very traditional ;) But I think I will try something different for my friends this year :)

I am crazy in love with the bookmark shaker dies! I need to start ordering supplies online but I know once I start ...LOL I'm sure you all know the rest! I love using pink and teal as non traditional colours! These are really fun cards love them but the lipbalm is fantastic!

I like both the traditional and the pastel colors. I wonder if a small roll of candy--maybe lifesavers?--would fit in the chapstick pouches. I don't know that I would give away chapstick, so I would have to come up with something else to put in the pouch.

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I'm Justine -I love everything papercrafting, especially making cards to send to others. I am an elementary school teacher and enjoy teaching both in the classroom and the craft room. I hope everyone finds something inspiring to create after reading!